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by marricks 7y ago
Growing up I though of NPR as a bastion of the left but the older I get the more cynical I become. Your take reminds me of the most infuriating story I heard on NPR about Amazon Seasonal workers. They spotlighted a retiree couple would supp
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by marricks 7y ago
It’s really easy to win the crowd by calling everyone else biased. When FB is one of the biggest lobbyists in Washington I highly doubt the press has ever been critical enough. They got by on being the new darling child startup and built up
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by marricks 7y ago
Huh you’re right about that. For some reason your heritage chart makes it look a lot more reasonable, which I don’t agree that it is. I’m guessing it has something to with comparing to GDP?
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by marricks 7y ago
The Heritage foundation sure knows how to frame things! Overall the military budget has increased steeply since the 90s https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Defense_spending.p...
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by marricks 7y ago
Not saying they are the same, just that when centrists come together they get a lot of bad things done. Also not surprised spending is down after the US left Iraq, would be surprised if it wasn’t overall up though. My point is, fighting “ze
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by marricks 7y ago
I always hate the framing as “polarized”. There’s tons of things Democrats and Republicans agree on. Military spending goes up every year. Save for Dodd-Frank, deregulation has been common across presidencies for 30 years along with corpora
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by marricks 7y ago
I think it’s their problem and not ours. No one ever wants to change and no matter how nicely you put things they’ll always feel attacked. It’s just how it work, ultimately no one really wants to change so they need to be pushed.
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by marricks 7y ago
“Shaming” is what got me and my girlfriend to change, one pointed conversation 3 months later we went vegetarian than a year later vegan.
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by marricks 7y ago
Or the detrimental health effects of animal based burgers either... https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Heart_beat...
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by marricks 7y ago
I mean the systems are programmed by humans right, why wouldn’t they have some of our biases? Not to mention once they’re made it gives everyone the excuse to say “oh sorry for bugging you I wasn’t being racist but my store’s AI said you
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by marricks 7y ago
Trying to detect a crime like shoplifting beforehand seems to open the door for all sorts of biases, racial and otherwise...
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by marricks 8y ago
I mean sure, but a common issue with conspiracies is they become so pervasive in social media, like top comments on hacker news, and then draw in the not-so-conspiracy-minded in. That’s what I’m trying to preempt.
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by marricks 8y ago
To preempt the conspiracy theorists showing up... > Firefighters were rushing to try to contain a fire that has broken out at the cathedral, which police said began accidentally and was linked to building work at the site. https:/&
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by marricks 8y ago
I mean, I hate Microsoft too but a decade and a half is a bit ago, why is this relevant now?
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by marricks 8y ago
Another bold (/s) move by the “don’t be evil” company. What they stand for seems more and more brazenly corporate profits.
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by marricks 8y ago
I agree with the spirit of this totally, if I run a coffee shop I sure as heck would kick out white nationalists and would support other coffee shops having that ability. There’s a weird side to this though that if you want to host a video
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by marricks 8y ago
> Safety. Yes, Rust is more safe. I don’t really care. In light of all of these problems, I’ll take my segfaults and buffer overflows. I especially refuse to “rewrite it in Rust” - because no matter what, rewriting an entire program from
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by marricks 8y ago
I wonder if people could get momentum behind big sites doing a day of “only works on Firefox” black out to bring notice to this. Going back to ie6 days would be awful...
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by marricks 8y ago
Firefox did some great things to increase speed in the last couple years (Servo!) but their share still seems to be declining or constant which leads me to a scary thought: Chrome and ilk are just too big to fail. It’s possible Chrome is la
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by marricks 8y ago
I removed profit shortly after posting, it is just an awful place to use that word. I think shaped is better than the implications of warped, thanks for the thought. Warped is true to how I feel but shaped I agree is more generally correct.
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by marricks 8y ago
Yeah... larger operations are more efficient. It’s one thing I try to remind people who think humane meat could be a thing. Our planet is already getting destroyed by CAFOs imagine feeding people cows who each had an acre to themselves? (My
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by marricks 8y ago
As someone who hates large corporations (I think I spend most of my HN time nowadays railing against big tech) and a vegan this hits me at a weird spot. CAFO’s are horrible to the land and the poor cows trapped in them. Greater volume equal
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by marricks 8y ago
Why not both? Dumping on someone’s policy because you don’t who they target first doesn’t really help. God knows I’d trust her to break up ISPs before pretty much any other candidate.
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by marricks 8y ago
I feel like they learned their lesson, and unfortunately for us that lesson was the government will bail out big banks and executives will get away with it unscathed so let’s start the boom bust cycle over again in earnest.
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by marricks 8y ago
As a complete novice on the subject all I know (and have heard) was the Gates Foundation was involved in ending Polio and it was Bill’s pet project. I’m sure other people were involved but I have no clue who because the media loves focusing
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by marricks 8y ago
I feel like every other month Gates guest edits the Verge or has an interview there. Or I see his annual letter all over LinkedIn, or an AMA... He gets so much exposure I imagine because he’s a “good billionaire trying to fix the world.” I
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by marricks 8y ago
Study seemed to take a lot into account, is it really that outrageous of a finding? Fruit and vegetables have a lot of known benefits. We evolved from apes where most of our group are frugivores or herbivores. Hell, if our bread wasn’t fort
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by marricks 8y ago
Privacy is like drinking water: no one in the US cares about it until it's on the news. Why don't people care about clean water? Because federal agencies set standards and test for them. You could bore someone to death talking abo
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by marricks 8y ago
They seem to be the only body capable (and willing) to enforce privacy measures, so god I hope your wrong.
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by marricks 8y ago
People reconnected with such acquaintances a couple decades ago without Facebook. I find not having FB way better for those relationships anyways, instead of creepily knowing their life story since I stopped seeing them )because of FB) we h

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